[Lazarus] Gtk1-Gtk2 splitup.

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marc Weustink wrote:
> Hi list.
> 
> Last night the separation og gtk2 from the gtk1 widgetset became a fact 
> and it got merged into trunk.
> 
> What does this mean.
> 
> gtk2:
> During the merge of "common" gtk code into the gtk2 widgetset we might 
> have overlooked something, so we may have introduced some bugs. If you 
> see something strange/unexpected in the gtk2 widgetset, please report 
> them asap.
> 
> gtk1:
> It does not mean the end of the gtk1 widgetset. Eventually all gtk2 
> defines will get removed from it (any gtk1 volunteers are welcomed). The 
> gtk1 widgetset will get the same status as the win32 widgetset on Win98 
> or WinNt, however since there isn't any shared code with gtk2 anymore, 
> chances that we will break something when fixing gtk2 will be little. 
> Same goes for fixing gtk1, we won't break gtk2.

I'm compiling for v1 by default, I'll make a point of getting an SVN 
snapshot later and using it as far as possible.

Thanks to everybody for the effort going into this, and the usual big 
"thank you" to all core developers :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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